{"id":247,"date":"2005-11-18T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2005-11-18T10:00:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-11-18T10:00:13","modified_gmt":"2005-11-18T10:00:13","slug":"sentencing-principles-deterrent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"Sentencing &#8211; principles \u2013 deterrent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>R v Maka (2005) CA<\/strong> <br \/>D had been involved in the trafficking of a 15-year-old Lithuanian girl who had been tricked into coming to the United Kingdom.&nbsp; She was subsequently sold by the defendant a number of times, leading her to being raped and forced to work in brothels as a prostitute. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Held<\/strong>: The total sentence of 18 years on conviction for trafficking was severe but it was appropriately severe. Human trafficking had echoes of slavery. <strong>Deterrence<\/strong> to others who took part in such activities was a highly material consideration and the deterrence applied to others in <strong>Lithuania or other parts of Europe<\/strong>. The judge at trial stated that 120,000 women were being sent from the East to the West annually, and that the rate was increasing by up to 10% per year. He said that Lithuanians were particularly vulnerable since the country had entered the European Union, as Lithuanian criminals were targeting the United Kingdom. Trafficking is contrary to the <strong>Sexual Offences Act 2003<\/strong>. <strong>Attorney General&#8217;s Reference (No 6 of 2004) [2004]<\/strong> considered. <br \/>Appeal dismissed <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R v Maka (2005) CA D had been involved in the trafficking of a 15-year-old Lithuanian girl who had been tricked into coming to the United Kingdom.&nbsp; She was subsequently sold by the defendant a number of times, leading her to being raped and forced to work in brothels as a prostitute. Held: The total [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}